Space Pirate [Part 1 of 4]

       "We are breaking off, hang tight!" Ken yelled from the cockpit.
The aircraft blasted off from the landing port in a terrible tremble and snapped off the connecting crane arm. They had escaped but the hull took a massive damage that disabled both the shield and the secondary weapon system. Their breaches also triggered the alarm on the pirate ship, the red light kept blinking on the lower deck, indicating the alarm's origin for the pirates on site.
       Ken tilted the ship nose up and flew away from the pirate base in maximum speed. The bulky pirate capital ship floated in the space, trying to drift around very slowly. Three small pirate fighter jet emerged from the left hangar of the mother ship and sped up in pursuit of the ship on the loose.
       The paint on the ship read 'Nex0n'.

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       Ken was the pilot of 'Nex0n', a class B Tiger - small exploration ship modeled after the Class C Leopard with the same purpose. His primary objective was to navigate the ship and transport a team of researchers around the Faro - also known as the Far-off Sector for scientific exploration. With five years of flying in the open space, he is both a certified pilot for all ship class and is licensed to use Grade B weapon or below.
       He had encountered the pirate before, they were a loose army fighting for resources and liberty with cunning tactics. He evaded them most of the time, trying not to provoke or fly into their ambush around the asteroid field. It worked before the Acting Galactic Government announced the project to manually 'push' the asteroids into a nearby deserted planet in the sector where the pirate was the most active as to create a new and safe route for Inter-station transportation. The pirate across the sector revolted and decided to take action by hijacking any non-pirate ship appeared on radar.

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       The pirate's capital ship was lurking around a huge rock when Ken was flying the vessel back to the Central Hub. By the time Ken spotted the enemy on the radar, the ship had already lose its power because of the electromagnetic pulse the pirate sent out.
       A ship painted in the dirty pirate black with a crane arm on top flew by and clamped the Nex0n's wing and dragged it back to the pirate base.
       The researchers on the ship were terrified about their capture. Some of them said the pirate would kill the weak and old, enslave the strong and young.
       Ken remain seated, he looked to the side and saw the ship dragging them was a remote control prototype developed for space building, which mean the ship had an access point open for scan. He checked his mechanical watch bought as a gift by his father years ago when he was still a cadet. Almost ten minutes. The effect of the EMP would wear off in ten minutes if the pirate used the one they salvaged from the recently missing fighter jet Hawk. He had to take the chance.
       Ken prepared for the system to go online while readying to interrupt the remote control frequency.
       Exactly ten minutes later, the light and engine came back and Ken worked his way into the control port and gained access. He waited until the other ship kissed the landing pad and sent a command signal for the crane to lose its grip on Nex0n.
       He didn't wait for the crane to complete the action and took off with a shout.